Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment

Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE), established in 1991, is an affiliate of CropLife America, with which it shares a Washington, D.C. office. RISE, a lobbying and public relations trade organization, defends the "urban usage" of pesticides in homes, schools, and landscapes. It also defends "urban vegetation control."

RISE has what it describes as "an excellent working relationship with" the Environmental Protection Agency. Its website notes its involvement, with EPA, on the "Consumer Labeling Initiative, a campaign encouraging people to read and follow household product labels (including pesticides) before using." [1]

Regarding local resolutions passed by 70 cities and one province in Canada which limit pesticide use for lawn care, RISE president Allen James said, "Local communities generally do not have the expertise on issues about pesticides to make responsible decisions." According to James, it's better to consider such issues at the state level. "Decisions are made much more carefully and the train moves much more slowly" at the state level, he told Scripps Howard News Service. [3]

Documents written by or referencing this person or organization are contained in the Anti-Environmental Archive, launched by Greenpeace on Earth Day, 2015. The archive contains 3,500 documents, some 27,000 pages, covering 350 organizations and individuals. The current archive includes mainly documents collected in the late 1980s through the early 2000s by The Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research (CLEAR), an organization that tracked the rise of the so called "Wise Use" movement in the 1990s during the Clinton presidency. Access the index to the Anti-Environmental Archives here.